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Old 02-21-2014, 02:22 PM   #1413
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Originally Posted by BaylorCamaro View Post
I was actually hinting at the Ford GT.
But the name isn't taken from a trim level though, its a derivitive of the old GT40 name. They lost the naming rights (and made the car taller than 40 inches) so it couldn't really be named GT40. So they went with just 'GT' instead.

Unless you really want to believe that this:




traces its name to one of these:



instead of one of these:

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